Ownership Family & Proxy Trading
Congressional disclosures cover not just members themselves but trades held by a spouse, jointly, or by a dependent child. This breaks activity down by owner — how much each trades, and how their trades performed. A frequently-cited pattern is that spouses' trades outperform the members' own; this lets you see whether that holds in the current data.
Trading Volume by Owner
Performance by Owner avg 1-year excess return vs S&P 500
Household trading in overseen sectors
A sharper question than raw volume: when a member's household (a spouse or dependent child — accounts that aren't the member's own) trades, how often does it land in a sector the member's committee oversees? And is that more than the member's own account? Members ranked by their household's overlap, among those with at least 8 household trades.
| Member | Household trades | …in overseen sectors | Member's own account |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emily Randall House | 11 | 45% | no own-account trades |
| Deborah Ross House | 12 | 42% | no own-account trades |
| August Lee Pfluger House | 14 | 36% | 38% |
| Linda Sanchez House | 14 | 36% | no own-account trades |
| Laurel Lee House | 16 | 31% | 100% |
| Mike Kelly House | 15 | 20% | no own-account trades |
| Debbie Dingell House | 97 | 19% | 30% |
| Byron Donalds House | 83 | 19% | 23% |
| Carol Devine Miller House | 48 | 19% | 20% |
| Richard Allen House | 137 | 17% | 22% |
| Austin Scott House | 37 | 16% | 6% (+10pp in household) |
| Lisa McClain House | 1348 | 15% | no own-account trades |
| Scott Peters House | 310 | 15% | 0% (+15pp in household) |
| Kevin Hern House | 27 | 15% | 18% |
| John McGuire House | 26 | 15% | no own-account trades |
concentrated = the household's overseen-sector share is both high and markedly above the member's own account — i.e. the exposure to sectors the member regulates sits mainly in a family account. This is not an accusation: shared financial advisors and shared household finances explain most of it. It's shown so the pattern is visible, not hidden. See also conflicts and the Leakage Index.